SVM Communications: Using registries to investigate vascular disease.

Autor: Holder, Tara A, Alabi, Olamide, Arya, Shipra, Beach, Jocelyn M, Eagle, Kim, Kim, Esther SH, Shalhub, Sherene, Gornik, Heather L
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Zdroj: Vascular Medicine; Jun2023, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p257-261, 5p
Abstrakt: Patient advocacy groups provide physicians with a unique perspective of what is important to patients and a platform to allow patients to participate in improving care. Over the past few decades, there has been a wider recognition of peripheral vascular disease as a unique set of disease processes that affect a larger population of patients than initially appreciated. Finally, crowdsourcing, where patients can submit their own data and samples, is a unique way to increase patient recruitment and participation, and is an underutilized method for patient recruitment and participation. Most patients presenting with AAD aneurysm do so at sizes below prophylactic guidelines for aneurysm repair, with ascending diameters < 5.0 cm in 40% of Type A patients, and descending diameters < 5.5 cm in 81.6% of Type B patients. [Extracted from the article]
Databáze: Complementary Index